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U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project – USALEEP
The U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) is a partnership of NCHS, the , and the to produce a new measure of health for where you live. The USALEEP project produced estimates of life expectancy at birth—the average number of years a person can expect to live—for most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015.
Methods
The abridged period life tables calculated to estimate census-tract life expectancy at birth for the period 2010-2015 are based on a methodology developed for this project and described in the report:
Arias E, Escobedo LA, Kennedy J, Fu C, Cisewski J. U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project: Methodology and Results Summary [PDF – 8 MB]. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 2(181). 2018.
Data and Documentation Files
Life Expectancy Files contain geographic identifiers, life expectancy at birth for 2010-2015, and flags noting whether the estimates were based exclusively on observed data, a combination of observed and predicted values, or exclusively predicted values.
Abridged Period Life Table Files contain geographic identifiers and the abridged, period life tables for 2010-2015 that were calculated to generate the life expectancy estimates for each census tract.
Record layout [PDF – 69 KB] [XLS – 18 KB]
Copyright information
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Suggested citation
For data files: National Center for Health Statistics. U.S. Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP): Life Expectancy Estimates File for {Jurisdiction}, 2010-2015]. National Center for Health Statistics. 2018. Available from: /nchs/nvss/usaleep/usaleep.html.
For methodology: Arias E, Escobedo LA, Kennedy J, Fu C, Cisewski J. U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project: Methodology and Results Summary [PDF – 8 MB]. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 2(181). 2018.
*U.S. CSV files A and B include all states, the District of Columbia, and New York City.